The Truman show review (By: Shubham Soni)
The Truman Show is a movie directed by Peter Weir, and written by Andrew Niccol in the year 1998. It stars Jim Carrey as Truman Burbank, Laura Linney as Truman’s spouse, Meryl Burbank, Noah Emmerich as Marlon (Truman’s best friend), and Ed Harris as Christof. According to rottentomatoes.com, most critics voted for this movie; in fact, an overall of 90% of the top critics voted in its favour, and an overall of 95% of people said this movie was a “fresh tomato”. The Truman Show contains many themes relating to knowledge, reality, and perception. This movie is quite similar to others that mention how the truth can be hidden from you. A piece of literature that The Truman Show can be directly related to is the “Allegory of the Cave”, in Book VII of The Republic, written by a very famous Greek philosopher, Plato. This is because in both works, the protagonists are the ones that are blinded from the truth, and eventually, they take a journey of enlightenment to discovering the real truth. Truman has been living his whole life in Seahaven, an “island paradise”. At birth, Truman was orphaned, and from there, he was legally adopted by a TV company; they decided to monitor his whole life. Every year, every month, every week, every hour, every moment, and every second of his life was planned to be monitored, just for entertainment purposes. After more than thirty years of living his life in the domed city of Seahaven, he is still not able to tell that he is living in such a structure. Any time he has attempted to leave, he has been restricted by any means. Eventually, through many sequences of events, Truman finally comes to realize that there is some information that is being withheld from him. From here on, this one crack of information gets larger, and larger, and larger, where it inevitably reaches this point.
All that needs to be said is that this is a perfect drama/comedy movie to watch in a one hundred minutes time.